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Hundreds of e-commerce sites booby-trapped with payment card skimming malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) About 500 e-commerce websites were recently found to be compromised by hackers who installed a credit card skimmer that surreptitiously stole sensitive data when visitors attempted to make a purchase. A report published on Tuesday is only the latest one involving Magecart, an umbrella term given to competing crime groups that […]

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Microsoft is seeing a big spike in Web shell use

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average number of Web shells installed from August, 2020 to January of this year was 144,000, almost twice that for the […]

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Boom! Hacked webpage on Cell Phone site is stealing clients’ card information

Expand / / Computer hacker persona stealing money on the web. Vector flat animation illustration (charge: GettyImages) If you are on the market for a brand new cell phone program, it is ideal to refrain from turning into Boom! Mobile. In other words, if you don’t do not obey your sensitive charge card data has […]